The people at the top are practically infantilized while those of us at the bottom need to take what ever bullshit they give us and suck it up
They're basically treated like an old Chinese emperor or something where politics is happening around them, but they never actually have to interface or interact with it. Just stay in your cool walled garden and fancy palace grounds while we take care of the rest. Notice to palace staff - do not cry that your conscripted son was killed somewhere on the frontier, since that could indicate to the emperor that the war is going badly.
At least the old systems of nobility had the shoddy excuse of enthronement being justified by birthright. So much for our modern meritocracy.
They're basically treated like an old Chinese emperor or something where politics is happening around them, but they never actually have to interface or interact with it. Just stay in your cool walled garden and fancy palace grounds while we take care of the rest. Notice to palace staff - do not cry that your conscripted son was killed somewhere on the frontier, since that could indicate to the emperor that the war is going badly.
At least the old systems of nobility had the shoddy excuse of enthronement being justified by birthright. So much for our modern meritocracy.
Today the justification is that they "worked hard" to get where they are because our system is "merit-based".